Literary and Rhetorical Terms 6

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Enjambment

In poetry, the running over of a sentence from one verse or stanza to the next without stopping at the end of the first. (thought is incomplete at the end of a line and goes on as if it were still the same line)

Enlightenment

An intellectual movement in the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries uniting the concepts of God, nature, reason, and man in the belief that "right reason" could achieve for man a perfect society by freeing him from the oppressive restraints of unexamined authority, superstition, and prejudice. Also known as the Age of Reason